The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-26
DOLLY.
She Has a Word to Say About
Women AS Business
Factors.

was sitting reading to me the other
evening and said, "Now Dolly, here
is a little sentiment of Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher, which strikes me as
being as worthy of consideration as
many of the sayings of her illustrious
husband" Yes" / said, with the
rising infection to the assent. eyes"
answered Will, and he read:
Home is the true kingdom of
women, where her rights can never be
dethroned. Here all pure love, all
right thoughts. all religions, all
governments, if we would have them
live and flourish, must have their roots
beneath the altar. This conviction
impels me to say to every woman
who has home, "Let me stand first
before all other things"
Very good, indeed" said, "but
Willie did it ever strike you that
nearly all womanly women believe
that sentiment and it is only the force
of circumstances that finally educates
them to something else. am just as
sure as that to me "my home my
kingdom u.s." that away down in their
hearts most women have all their
right thoughts beneath the altar" Of
home. But it is for many women in
the same ratio with the long welded
wife, whose breast has never felt the
pressure of her baby's head, or the
exile who looks away across the ocean
and in fancy sees the matched roof
which never again shall shelter him
they are forced out into the
world and in the struggle for bread
and butter where there are so many
t. ;ostle and crowd, they gradually
grow to feel that their home rights
have been dethroned."
Oh | dunno, "said Will, | can't
understand why a woman vino is in
business, should not be just as much
interested In her home as anybody,
I'm sure a man thinks just
as much of his home even when
carrying on a business of large pro-
portions as If he were sitting around
on stuffed cushion and making gim-
cracks for the parlor walls"
i answered, "And 1 presume a man
who could sit around on a stuffed
cushion and make 'grimcracks
wouldn't care enough about home to
have one at all, but that is not exactly
the point. A man. loves his home
because it means for him rest, peace,
and that peculiar privilege of being
master in his own house'-you need
not smile; / always allow you to be
master. when think you are right
but a woman loves her home for many
reasons, chiefly because she has in it
refuge and feels that sense of pro-
lection which comes to her no where
else. When she takes up the every
day routine of business it is not long
until the pruning knife of competi-
ton cuts off all the little clinging ten
drills of home pleasures and home
amusmeuts and she Crews
bot exactly Indifferent but
more careless of it and she can not
let it "standfrst of all things.
Perhaps you are right Dolly,
but if good can come out
OF women in business l am
sure would not deny them the
privilege"
why of course you wouldn't,
Willie, but l am sure that while
defining business womaD's position
toward the home, ] do not mean to
inner that knowledge of some prac-
teal purpose entirely units her as the
guardian spirit of the home. A full
development of all her powers, but
increases a woman's usefulness in any
direction. Now, for instance, let me
illustrate how much better 1T is that
ali women should have some business
training. How many endorsements
the man of family would be spared
if his wife in her girlhood
had been taught the proper use of
money, and how to conduct her ex.
penditures in purely business and
economical manner"
Yes, / know" said Will, "women
always think they ought to knew all
about their husbands business and
they never once consider that he does
nor tell them, because he does not
wish them to share his troubles and
privations."
II do not admit that women always
want to know about their husbands
business" replied, "but do know,
Mr.. Will, that many husbands de-
prive themselves of the moral as
we'll as practical help of
their wives when they treat
them like irresponsible children, and
many man is ruined by just such a
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